Great news from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: We’ve turned this economy around

posted at 4:00 pm on June 12, 2011 by Allahpundit

The horrendous economic indicators of late have had me worried about a double-dip, but after this Reality-Based newsflash from DWS, I feel much better. To think, some people call her Debbie Downer; why, she’s practically bursting with optimism and good vibes. May I suggest a campaign slogan for her and the rest of the DNC?

“Obama 2012: You’re Welcome, America.”

By the same logic, I guess, Anthony Weiner’s little nob-tweeting habit has “turned his mayoral campaign around.” There’s a second clip included below of Wasserman-Schultz and Priebus chatting about him this morning too, just so that you can watch DWS squirm when asked by Gregory why she was so quick to dismiss the scandal as a “personal matter” after Weiner’s initial, utterly preposterous explanation. An idle thought: Some liberals (but not Debbie) are still willing to defend Weiner on account of the fact that he fights hard for the progressive agenda. How exactly is he fighting for their agenda, though, by singlehandedly derailing their “Republicans want to kill grandma” Medicare messaging push in the media? He’s killing their agenda. If he cared more about The Cause than about impressing women with his congressional cachet, he would have fallen on his sword a week ago. Instead, he’s prepared to let the Democrats bleed for months if need be as the media digs up one new sleazy revelation after another. What a selfless warrior he is.

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Since the original demorat plan was to turn the economy from being productive and vibrant to something resembling that of North Korea or Zimbabwe, and all of it controlled by a cabal of holier-than-thou liberals, then yes they have succeeded.

The Great Recession and its aftermath have created a very high (17 percent) youth unemployment rate. But the meltdown “vaporized” both housing values and retirement plans, forcing aging baby boomers to work longer than they intended. “For every member of the millennial generation frustrated that she can’t start a career, there may be a baby boomer frustrated that he can’t end one,” according to Brownstein.

What planet does these people live on? I’m from FL but now live in MT. I’ve grown tired of apologizing for the senators from our state and will just shake my head about those from FL. What were you guys thinkin’?

Why Democrats do this simply amazes me. EVERYONE knows that the economy is not turned around. Saying stuff like this makes them look like idiots. But they believe that they can make a reality by simply believing. The Democrats are like a Peter Pan cult of some sort. Talk like this comes across looking stupid and does not help the Democrats one bit.

…you know…all those knuckle-dragging wingnut rednecks out there who, contrary to all they were taught by unionized teachers in state-run schools, elected Mr. Reagan president…twice, no less! Who but the American people — or, at least, the majority of them — elected two Bushes…one, again, twice.

…that’s the nasty thing about democracy…when left the people, democracy leaves Democrats in the dust.

I wonder if those who support Mr. W on account of his willingness to struggle (so long, evidently, as it doesn’t involve actually breaking a sweat) realize that he’s fighting on behalf of an angry, bitter little minority against the majority of that minority’s neighbors. I expect that, if they did, they wouldn’t much care.

During an April, 2009 House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, fellow Floridian Tom Rooney, a retired U.S. Army JAG Corps officer, introduced an amendment that would make attacks against military veterans a hate crime. Wasserman Schultz remarked on the amendment:

“I’m from a state, as Mr. Rooney is, that includes and represents the districts that include real victims. I represent a very large — one of the largest gay populations in the United States of America. One of the largest Jewish populations in the United States of America. My region — our region has a very large African-American population. It really is belittling of the respect that we should have for these groups to suggest that members of the armed services have somehow systematically been the victims of hate crimes.”

Maybe she doesn’t know that she’s lying, Congress critters live in an alternate reality. You know, the one where insider trading and stuff is legal.

obladioblada on June 12, 2011 at 4:09 PM

She knows she’s lying. Barry and the dems have been trying to get this “economy is turning around” narrative going for awhile, but reality keeps biting them. They’re all using the same campaign language, all talking from the same script, and the media is trying its best to get the damn thing to catch hold. And then new employment figures some out. Or new housing figures. Or new debt figures. Or the markets take a tumble. Or gas prices shoot up. Or food prices go up and people start whispering “inflation.”

The dems keep hoping, though, that they can convince enough unemployed, underwater-on-their-mortgage, can’t-afford-groceries voters that THE ECONOMY IS TURNING AROUND. It’ll be a tough sell.

Why Democrats do this simply amazes me. EVERYONE knows that the economy is not turned around. Saying stuff like this makes them look like idiots. But they believe that they can make a reality by simply believing. The Democrats are like a Peter Pan cult of some sort. Talk like this comes across looking stupid and does not help the Democrats one bit.

crosspatch on June 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM

My belief is that it’s the affirmative-action standard that Dems want to beat into the electorate for the next 18 months.

The “progressive” left, which is socialist/collectivist by another more palatable name, bases its orthodoxy on ignoring any fact which contravenes their theses. They are the heirs of the guys who airbrushed Trotsky out of photos showing him standing closer to Lenin than Stalin did…who killed any square peg which refused to fit in their neatly turned round societal holes, from Ukraine in the ’30’s to Cambodia in the ’70’s to (on an intellectual and free speech level) American universities and media outlets today.

…they’re the kids who stick their fingers in their eyes and chant “La-la-la-la” until you stop speaking, even if you’re speaking the truth…they’re the heirs to the guys in “1984” who told Winston Smith that he’d need all 5 blocks if he’d ever make 2 plus 2 equal 4.

Gather round, my children, it’s Story Time with Debbie. Got your cookies and milk. After this she will tell us about will tell us the one about “Lions and tigers and kinetic military overseas contigency operations.”

Great news from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: We’ve turned this economy around

Simple affirmation that Obama’s plans to “fundamentally change” the U.S.A. has, so far, worked. It’s gone from handicapped to nearly ruined in just a few years under Obama’s/Democrat’s influence. To D-W-S, that’s cause for happiness, obviously: their “good thing” that the nation’s economy has “turned around,” it affirms the ‘classic’ Liberal delusion that they’re victims: now they’re even bigger victims! Winning!

Seriously, I can’t figure out why she doesn’t just brush her hair at least once a day, particularly before she’s before a camera. Her hair routinely looks like it’s adverse to anything resembling a brush or even a comb. It’s like some sort of mat on her head.

Well it appears bho has all his little darlings out trying to give it the things are better mode on the msm talk shows. Frankly, I hope this old gal keeps talking, she is one I mute as I do bho. Her voice is about, almost, as horrible as bho. Keep it up suger, you are doing a wonderful job! I guess this old bat thinks we are as stupid as she is?
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Why Democrats do this simply amazes me. EVERYONE knows that the economy is not turned around. Saying stuff like this makes them look like idiots. But they believe that they can make a reality by simply believing. The Democrats are like a Peter Pan cult of some sort. Talk like this comes across looking stupid and does not help the Democrats one bit.

I think you’ll have to smoke some dope in order to get the full effects of liberalism.

mizflame98 on June 12, 2011 at 4:41 PM

I maintain that’s what has created the insane, crazy, lunatic left that we have today–all the drugs they willingly ingested during the sixties up until now. We are most likely dealing with the end result of years of drug induced insanity.

Somewhere in our nation’s capital, Joe Biden’s gotta be steaming over Debbie trying to steal his gig as Best Comedy Relief Spokesperson. But the Democrats do pride themselves as being the party of equal opportunity.